Being invisible can be exciting and fun. It can also be frightening...and dangerous. Especially when Rosie's dad becomes a suspect in a local crime and the gang go invisible to find the real crooks.
Being invisible can be exciting and fun. It can also be frightening...and dangerous. Especially when Rosie's dad becomes a suspect in a local crime an...
This is a contemporary tale about two friends--one of whom, Asra, is an asylum seeker from an unnamed Eastern European country. The other, Ruby Tanya, is the daughter of a local man who is campaigning against the presence of asylum seekers in his community. During a dramatic explosion at the girls' school, a young teacher is killed. The asylum seekers at the local camp are blamed, and local people begin to argue that they should be deported. A branch of the National Front gets involved and demos are planned. Asra and her parents are due to be deported, but Asra runs away at the last minute so...
This is a contemporary tale about two friends--one of whom, Asra, is an asylum seeker from an unnamed Eastern European country. The other, Ruby Tanya,...
Every night Kirsty wakes up screaming. Every night she has the same terrible nightmare--of falling downstairs. But does she fall? Or is she pushed? Then Kirsty discovers that her grandma died falling down stairs and she begins to wonder. Is the dream hinting at a dark secret in her family? She has to know the truth. But tracking a murderer is a dangerous game, and as she delves into the past, Kirsty uncovers a secret more terrible than anything she can imagine.
Every night Kirsty wakes up screaming. Every night she has the same terrible nightmare--of falling downstairs. But does she fall? Or is she pushed? Th...
Once a creature is extinct, it's gone forever, right? Not any more. The physicist mother of Kizzy and Fraser Rye has invented an amazing time machine that can travel back into the past, snatch a plant or animal now extinct, and bring it back into the present. It is a wonderful achievement and an astounding scientific breakthrough. But the machine, "Rye's Apparatus," also has horrifying potential. Suddenly Kizzy and Fraser find themselves caught up in a terrifying spiral of events that eventually leads to a monstrous demand from a sinister and violent organization.
Once a creature is extinct, it's gone forever, right? Not any more. The physicist mother of Kizzy and Fraser Rye has invented an amazing time machine ...
It is the height of World War II. Britain is being ravaged by bombs and most young men are off fighting, and Gordon wishes he was too. Maybe then he wouldn't get bullied for having a cowardly family: Gordon's dad didn't serve in World War I, and now his older brother Raymond isn't serving in World War II--he's gone missing. When Gordon finds a revolver hidden in his house, he tracks Raymond down but ends up involved in more than he'd bargined for. Raymond enlists Gordon's help to deliver and collect some "packages." But is the work actually for the government? And will it have terrible...
It is the height of World War II. Britain is being ravaged by bombs and most young men are off fighting, and Gordon wishes he was too. Maybe then he w...
Life in a small village is boring now that the war is over, butwhen a group of children hear of some treasure kept locked in the village, things start to look a bit more interesting
It's September 1939, and Britain has just entered World War II, but in the small town of Golfodd there are no bombs, no soldiers, and no machine guns. For Tom, Mary, Gary, and Dil, the whole thing is a disappointment. They want excitement, but they aren't looking for trouble, so when they start shadowing the mysterious new woman in town, they don't expect it to lead them down to the bottom of the old, rotten...
Life in a small village is boring now that the war is over, butwhen a group of children hear of some treasure kept locked in the village, things st...
Another tense, gripping wartime story from award-winning author Robert SwindellsThe war has just ended in the tiny village of Coney Cley, and Josh and his gang are desperate for some excitement. When they head for the eerie, abandoned Shadows Lane to explore a deserted house, they find more than they bargained for--a human tooth. Then a creepy, skeletal face appears at a dark window. Believing there's a skeleton haunting Shadows Lane, the children are shocked to learn the truth about "Boney"--he's an escaped prisoner of war. But someone else is also hiding in the village, someone much more...
Another tense, gripping wartime story from award-winning author Robert SwindellsThe war has just ended in the tiny village of Coney Cley, and Josh ...
